Right, we've been in our current house for 8 years now and our broadband is properly shit, for a long time it was around 2 meg.

When we bought the place Openreach said that the exchange would be fibre provisioned within 6 months, they kept saying this for 6 years. They then said it was not economically viable, as you can imagine this news was not well received.

Following that and a year or so of constant complaints they re-cabled my connection in the exchange and manged to scrape another meg together, bringing our capacity to just under 3 meg.

This was is enough for streaming, but only if we don't use it for anything else at the same time - it didn't stop me complaining however.

Due to the nature of my work I can keep an eye on fibre WAN provisioning, imagine my delight when I realised that with a few favours here and there a minor diversion could be put in place for one of the main trunks.

Mine will be the only house for MILES that will have fibre, not only that but actual fibre-to-premises as well. This means I can get 1Gbps upload/download (in theory) and due to the nature of the connection it'll pretty much be uncontested.

The only slight problem I'll face will be the provisioning, as the traffic will be managed by a back-haul provider, not necessarily a service provider. That's tomorrow's problem (well, the early part of next year as it'll probably take about 3 months to light the fibre).

Look, here they are earlier today putting the ducting in, they even asked me exactly where I want it to come up by the gates!

I'll be interested to hear how you two get on. We've had fibre in the road here since the year dot but a combination of suppliers refusing to connect to it and the insane costs even if they did has stalled it all hence the microwave connections.